[FC1], 2.6.8-rc2 kernel, new motherboard problems

[Bob Chiodini]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So am I.  And one things a bit odd.  I went to the Biostar site and 
> grabbed the latest bios for that board, or so I thought, but after 
> sticking it on a floppy (the bios builtin updater only looks on the 
> floppy) and haveing this on the floppy:
> 
> [root at coyote root]# ls -l /mnt/floppy
> total 958
> -rwxr--r--  1 root root  31058 Oct 17  2000 awdflash.exe
> -r-xr--r--  1 root root  54645 May 31  1994 command.com
> -rwxr--r--  1 root root     13 Mar 10  1994 config.sys
> -r-xr--r--  1 root root  40774 May 31  1994 io.sys
> -r-xr--r--  1 root root  38138 May 31  1994 msdos.sys
> -rwxr--r--  1 root root 290816 Jul 21 14:59 ncd0311.bin
> -rwxr--r--  1 root root 262144 Jan 21  2003 origbios.bin
> -rwxr--r--  1 root root 262144 Sep 19  2002 Vib0919b.bin
> 
> The bios updater cannot see the supposedly correct ncd0311.bin file.  
> It was named .exe before but IIRC I had to rename the Vib0919b.exe to 
> a .bin.  Its also too big, so obviously something is missmatched.
> The last 2 files are those for the older M7VIB mobo, with the last one 
> being the one that put the bios based updater in the bios so we don't 
> have to run awdflash.exe first.


Gene,

Are you sure the .exe files were not self-extracting ZIPs?  It's
unfortunate if that's the case as now you will need MS-DOS (with or
without the GUI).

Bob...
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